Hello there!
Sometimes my box just 'freezes' on me, especially when I try some disk-intensive task (like rebuilding the database for slocate). It's probably a kernel panic (afterwards there are no entries in any log) and this also happens sometimes even at startup (most times at the 'checking for hardware' point). I get a message then about a kernel panic, not being able to sync and there is a mention about two SCSI modules who lock up (sorry, don't have the exact message, and here also there is nothing in the log, since it's a kernel panic). From searches on the internet I gather there must be some bad blocks on the disk, and smartctl could help, but since my SATA uses libata (the disk shows up as being a SCSI disk -- a /dev/sda) and this has no support in smartctl. What other util or solution could I try, because my box is even more unstable now then a win box at the moment.
The entries in the websites show a little different error message, but the result is very similar. Very strange is that the only mention I find about such problems are always in a RAID environment, and I don't use RAID.....
Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I would prefer not to have to re-install the box.
Thanks in advance, Angelo
